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  • 2010
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. In the new romantic dramedy, Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place...

Directed By: Julio DePietro

Written By: Julio DePietro

  • 2010
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 42 m

The Good Guy

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
47
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. In the new romantic dramedy, Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place...

Directed By: Julio DePietro

Written By: Julio DePietro

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
47
38% Positive
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38% Mixed
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23% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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23% Negative
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75
It has smart characters, and is wise about the ones who try to tame their intelligence by acting out.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
70
The result is a more-clever-than-most window into modern urban yuppie mating rituals, tracking just how tough it is to keep a grip on love and the corporate ladder at the same time.
By Betsy Sharkey FULL REVIEW
70
Like its characters, Good Guy is sharp, fun and pleasant to behold, and its recreational, apartment and workplace locales are appropriately slick and showy.
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50
One by one, each scene goes slack as the script struggles with Screenwriting 101 problems like who the main character is and what he wants -- not to mention why any of us should care in the first place.
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40
Such passé testosterone worship might have been passable if the filmmaking weren’t so amateurish--every emotional exchange is accompanied by insipid, high-volume pop songs--and the film’s self-satisfied chest-thumping didn’t extend to its creator as well.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
38
It’s network television drama, starring actors best known for their TV work and full of the petty gripes and mild worries of characters who really have nothing compelling to worry about.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
12
Not just a shabby "Wall Street" knockoff clogged with dull, jargon-spewing trading-desk scenes that fail to advance the plot in any way. It's also a nondescript "Sex and the City" retread.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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6.6
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11% Negative
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Production Company Whitest Pouring Films, Belladonna Productions
Release Date Feb 19, 2010
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Will you know him when you meet him?
Website http://www.thegoodguyfilm.com/
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